Summer summary: what has been happening in the last few months
Ferguson shooting
The shooting of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown by an armed police officer, Darren Wilson, led to demonstrations and riots in Ferguson, a neighbourhood on the edge of St Louis. The incident sparked social unrest in Ferguson as residents questioned the power of the police and saw race as a primary factor.
The unrest was later inflamed by the way in which the police handled the situation, from their handling of Brown’s memorial, which was crushed by police vehicles, to their handling of protests which consumed Ferguson for over two weeks. The nation has been polarised by the incident, but whatever either camps’ views on race and policing the result was peaceful demonstrations during the day and nights filled with tear gas and rubber bullets. The protests stopped on the 25 August at the request of Brown’s family to enable funeral proceedings to occur peacefully.
Ferguson had its first public meeting since the shooting on Tuesday 9 September exactly a month after Brown’s death. The elected leaders were met with anger as protesters stood up with their arms raised, a reference to the incident as witnesses claim that Michael Brown held his hands up as he was shot. Although the protests…show more content… Ebola is extremely dangerous as it is highly infectious spreading through the contact of bodily fluids. With no known cure it is currently killing six out of ten victims, this currently totals at over 1,500 deaths since March. There has also been another outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has claimed 59 lives and is believed to be separate to the outbreak in West Africa. As epidemiologists map its spread there is a fear that it will not be possible to contain the disease for 18 months, in which time it could claim thousands of
